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Jason Mance Gordon
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Okay, continuing on our video series of moving up in the organization, techniques and methods
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for achieving fit. I want to talk to you about gender etiquette in the workplace and this can be a touchy
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subject but it's important to bring out some of the commonalities of understanding
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When addressing a female in the organization in a letter or writing, address them MS period
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Not M-I-S-S. Even if you know they're married, not M-R-S. M-S. It's appropriate etiquette and it's a neutral form of silutation
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Okay. So soften gender pronouns when you can. Don't always jump to him, her, or excuse me, him or his when you're using pronouns to refer to things
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Right. You can obviously use the objective one one could visit this place you know in that way as a noun
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But when you're identifying pronouns, don't naturally just simply make it him or his
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You can also, and it's equally grammatically correct, to use her or hers again
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It just shows some openness to the feminine form of the pronoun
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Guys, be careful with space dominance. It's a general tendency that bigger individuals have, typically overconfident individuals
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males, who when they sit down, you're spreading your feet wide and having your legs wide at
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common sitting space, it claims more room and more territory causing other people to
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sit more closely together. While it may be subconscious that still has a negative effect or negative perception from others Be conscious of your place in space Don invade onto other people space because again it a tendency that invites conflict
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or invites disdain from others. Opening the door. Now you can open the door for anyone
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It is a very courteous and nice gesture. You don't have to limit it to a male opening the door for a female
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You can go vice versa, a female opening the door for a male. Again, it's just a courtesy
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It's something nice to do but again, it's not inappropriate in the workplace
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Pulling out someone's chair. Again, you have to be careful with this
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It can be perceived negatively but generally, especially in some parts of the country, it's
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still received almost uniformly as positive. So again know the area you in know the individuals you dealing with but it just a subtle thing to again an attempt to achieve gender neutrality in the workplace
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And then again, business meals, do never order for someone else. That is an antiquated activity
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I bring these up because these are all things that I've seen on the episodes of Mad Men
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that have dramatically changed in the workforce and they make great examples
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You can go on forever with this list of things to do and not do
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But generally what you're looking for is to be courteous to everyone, to show respect
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to everyone, careful with the situations where you follow antiquated activities of treating
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one gender differently than the other and all in an effort to achieve comfort and uniformity
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